11 New York City Start-Ups To Watch in 2011 - TNW United States. In 2010, New York City took the world by surprise, unleashing a flood of start-ups and funding power, giving Silicon Valley a run for its money, literally. Start-ups like Gilt Groupe and Etsy have already proved their potential to attract mass markets outside of the tech community. Meanwhile Meetup, Tumblr and Foursquare have created numerous connections within the tech community, spawning so many opportunities for entrepreneurs, engineers and tech enthusiasts to create and grow new business ideas that could very well turn into their own multi-million dollar enterprises. 1.
Consmr Consmr is like Yelp for consumer packaged goods. While there are hundreds of review sites for movies, restaurants, electronics, video games, etc, there are no definitive go-to sites for reviews of consumer packaged goods; in fact it remains one of the few categories lacking a social resource online. Until now. 2. Need to find a great brunch spot in the East Village? 3. 4. 5. 6. vYou , YouTube 7. 8. 9. 10. & 11. Where Do New York's Hottest Startups Set Up Shop? (1) Startups in New York City: Which startups in NY are hiring. How Tech Start-ups Like Foursquare and Meetup Are Trying to Overthrow Old Media and Build a Better New York. On any given day in New York City, there are usually close to a dozen, if not more, “meetups” for people who work for tech start-ups. There are NY Tech Meetups, monthly events that can attract nearly a thousand people to an auditorium at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where developers have five minutes to demonstrate what their technologies do and then get to network with the venture capitalists and entrepreneurs and bloggers and assorted hangers-on in attendance afterward at Black Door, a bar on West 26th Street.
There are breakfasts for Women in New Media and for entrepreneurs in North Brooklyn, poker games at the apartment-slash-office of a start-up in Harlem called SpeakerText, Ping-Pong nights at SPiN New York, and dinners for the residents of a Union Square incubator called Dogpatch Labs.